Budget FY1999: A Chronology with Internet Access

Publication Date: January 1999

Publisher: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

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Research Area: Government

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This is a select chronology of, and a finding guide for information on, congressional and presidential actions and documents related to major budget events in calendar year 1998, covering the FY1999 budget (October 1, 1998 — September 30, 1999). Brief information is provided for the President’s budget, congressional budget resolutions, appropriations measures (regular, continuing, supplementals, and rescissions), budget reconciliation, House and Senate votes, line-item vetoes, publications, testimony, charts, and tables.

Congressional offices can use the Internet version of this report found on the CRS Appropriations Page [http://www.loc.gov/crs/products/apppage.html] to gain access to more information about the citations. In using this online version, one can click on the highlighted (underlined) section and be connected to full-text CRS products, documents, publications, testimony, and data tables. Internet addresses (http://) are provided in the printed copy of this report, so that the reader can consult cited information.

Examples of Internet connections to full-text material found in this report include CRS products, when they become available, on the budget process, reconciliation, and each of the 13 appropriation bills, pie charts such as “The Federal Dollar — Where the Money Comes From and Where it Goes,” Congressional Budget Office (CBO) publications including the Economic and Budget Outlook: Fiscal Years 1999-2008, and General Accounting Office (GAO) reports such as Federal Debt: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions.

Other Internet-linkages provide full access to budget, deficit, debt and economic data tables and charts, selected congressional testimony including that of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and CBO Director June O’Neill, the full text of line item vetoes, and bills, reports, and public laws for FY1997-FY1999 appropriations legislation.

If Internet access is not available, addresses and phone numbers are listed for Congressional committees, executive branch agencies mentioned in this report, and the sources of other publications.